Black-Footed Drone Fly
探検昆虫
Black-Footed Drone Fly
eristalis hirta
The Black-Footed Drone Fly is a fascinating insect that looks like a tiny bee! Kids will love watching it buzz around flowers, helping to pollinate them.
生息地: Gardens, parks, and near bodies of water.
外見
The Black-Footed Drone Fly is a plump, hairy insect strikingly similar to a bumblebee, with a body often banded in black and yellow or orange. Its defining characteristic is its dark, almost entirely black, legs, distinguishing it from many other hoverflies. It has large eyes and a single pair of clear wings.
界Animalia門Arthropoda綱Insecta目Diptera科Syrphidae属Eristalis
カテゴリ
昆虫レア度
Common
危険度
0/5 · 危険なし
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おもしろい事実
Adult drone flies can taste sweet nectar with their feet before even landing.
Their 'rat-tailed maggot' larvae breathe underwater using a snorkel-like tail!
These flies use their huge compound eyes to see almost all the way around them.
Though they look like bees, drone flies cannot sting – they are totally harmless!
特殊能力
能力
Clever Disguise
Black-Footed Drone Fly can look exactly like a bee or wasp because of its body shape and colors, which helps them scare away predators.
能力
Mid-Air Maestro
Black-Footed Drone Fly can hover perfectly still in the air because of its powerful flight muscles, which helps them feed on flowers.
能力
Pollination Power
Black-Footed Drone Fly has fuzzy bodies that pick up pollen easily, which helps them spread pollen between flowers as they feed.
能力
Watery Wrigglers
Black-Footed Drone Fly larvae can live in stagnant, murky water because they have a long breathing tube, which helps them survive where others can't.
サイズと詳細
- 翼開長
- 15-25 mm
- サイズ
- 7-12 mm
- 寿命
- 14-28 日
- 飛行速度
- 8 km/h
- 脚の数
- 6
食性と食事
Adult drone flies sip sweet nectar from flowers, while their larvae are amazing nature's clean-up crew!
年齢による違い: Larvae (rat-tailed maggots) consume decaying organic matter, bacteria, and algae in water. Adults feed on nectar and pollen from flowers.
主な食物
- nectar
- pollen
- decaying organic matter
- bacteria
- algae
採餌方法
- Foraging
生態系とのつながり
pollinates
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Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale
helps spread pollen for
eaten by
House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
provides a food source for
eaten by
Flower Crab Spider
Misumena vatia
gets ambushed by
pollinates
Goat Willow
Salix caprea
visits early spring catkins for
特徴
別名
まだ別名はありません。
コレクション
安全性
危険度
0/5 · 危険なし
まだ特別な安全上の注意はありません。
よくある質問
Black-Footed Drone Flyの翼開長は何ですか？
15-25 mm
Black-Footed Drone Flyのサイズは何ですか？
7-12 mm
Black-Footed Drone Flyの寿命は何ですか？
14-28 日
Black-Footed Drone Flyの飛行速度は何ですか？
8 km/h
Black-Footed Drone Flyは何を食べますか？
Adult drone flies sip sweet nectar from flowers, while their larvae are amazing nature's clean-up crew!
Black-Footed Drone Flyは通常どこに生息していますか？
Gardens, parks, and near bodies of water.
Black-Footed Drone Flyはどのように狩りをしますか？
Foraging
Black-Footed Drone Flyの脚の数は何ですか？
6
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